Very fundamental problems using macros

[xpman]

Hello everybody;

This is my first post here
I've been digging recently into OOo Base after being a very basic user of Calc and Writer, decided to step in into Base to create a very basic Invoicing system . Having 15 years of experience with Oracle products, most of the terminology was familiar to me so I progressed quickly with all the built-in functionality but I'm hitting the wall of needing to use MACROS.

I'm trying to implement the different methods exposed here to update two fields from a combo box but I'm facing two very fundamental problems:
First of all, let me comment I have a form (invoice header) with a sub-form (invoice lines). I'm having the problems on the subform:

1.- Using the simplest macro using an msgbox I've seen that the only events that seem to work are "Before update" "After update" and "Error message" (sorry, I use Spanish version so the translations are on my own). This limits a lot the potential usage of events/macros but still are useable for my purposes.

2.- Macros do no seem to understand "oEv" sintax for elements. A simple call to xRay:

[QuazzieEvil]

Is oEv a parameter in the handler?

can you post a sample event handler
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[xpman]

As said I'm a newbie using Macros so don't even know how to check the parameters associated to the handlers. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

As said, I'm left to use "Before update" event as associating a simple macro with just:

Msgbox "Hello world"

proved that only "Before update" and "After update" were able to call the macro.

Maybe that is the very basic problem; all events should work regardless being called from a subform.

Regards

[orpheus2]

Hi xpman,

if you want to acces the event structure which is passed to the macro handling your event, then you should declare your macro as follows: